The new ACT Women’s Plan is a disappointing document because it misses an important opportunity to address many of the difficulties women with pregnancies face in Canberra, said Mary Joseph, president of the ACT Right to Life Association. Minister for Women, Katy Gallagher MLA, launch

Women should be given the safeguard of a doctor’s prescription before taking the morning after pill, president of the ACT Right to Life Association, Mary Joseph said today. Ms Joseph was commenting on plans by Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott to put the morning-after pill Postinor-

Human cloning could be a reality in the ACT within a few years under legislation to be debated today in the Legislative Assembly, warned Mary Joseph, president of the ACT Right to Life Association. The Human Cloning (Prohibition) Bill and the Human Embryo (Research) Bill are expected

Human rights will be taken away from our smallest citizens if the ACT Government’s Human Rights Bill 2003 is passed, president of the ACT Right to Life Association, Mary Joseph, said today. The ACT’s proposed Bill of Rights was introduced into the ACT Legislative Assembly

Members of the Legislative Assembly should oppose the ACT Government’s plans to allow destructive embryo research to occur in Canberra, president of the ACT Right to Life Association, Mary Joseph said today. The Government today introduced the Human Cloning and Embryo Research Bill in

President of the ACT Right to Life Association, Mary Joseph, said she was gutted by the vote in the ACT Legislative Assembly last night, which abolished all criminal laws relating to abortion and took away all protections for women considering an abortion, such as an informed consent

By Mary Joseph The Canberra Times 23 January 2002 IN ANY debate on abortion laws, both the life of the unborn child and the damage to women need to be acknowledged. Yet in supporting legislation to decriminalise abortion, Legislative Assembly Member Roslyn Dundas attempts to normalise

By Mary Joseph The Canberra Times 23 January 2002 IN ANY debate on abortion laws, both the life of the unborn child and the damage to women need to be acknowledged. Yet in supporting legislation to decriminalise abortion, Legislative Assembly Member Roslyn Dundas attempts to normalise

Earlier this year Labor MLA Wayne Berry stated abortion “must be safe, legal and preferably rare”. Some might be surprised that Berry would profess concern with making abortion rare. Berry’s legislation, introduced into the Legislative Assembly this week, would strik

The Sunday Times (The Canberra Times), 23 January 2000 By Nicola Pantos It’s time for many of the critics of the Federal Government’s decision to cut Medicare rebates for early ultrasound tests to be up-front about why they’re upset. Behind the rhetoric about denying choice and compro